Individual provincial governments don't?
As they say, if you don't measure, you can't manage.
Is there a general agreement across our panel today that the leadership required to actually understand what's happening in the internship field would be an important one to cutting out abuse, certainly, of any employers that are using internships inappropriately? Would anyone disagree with that statement and put it in the negative?
Okay, there is agreement from the panel on this.
I want to talk about that potential for exploitation. So, we don't know how many unpaid internships are out there. We have, in some provinces, laws that would protect those unpaid interns from unreasonable work conditions, and a lack of health and safety benefits. But, the application of what few laws exist on the books is also somewhat scattered.
Can anyone comment on how we got to this situation? Why is it? Is it a supply and demand question, where young people are coming out of school so hungry for a job—or not a job, an internship, anything—that they're willing to put themselves in sometimes, as we call it, precarious work.
Mrs. Bollo-Kamara, could you comment on this?